[Rockhounds] Indonesian Megaliths: A forgotten cultural heritage - Open Access eBook

[Paul]

Steimer, T. 2018, Indonesian Megaliths:
A forgotten cultural heritage, Archaeopress, Oxford.
https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:107467

Title: Indonesian Megaliths: A forgotten cultural heritage
Author: Steimer, Tara
Publication: Oxford: Archaeopress, 2018
Collection: Laboratoire d'archéologie préhistorique UNIGE
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Abstract:
"A forgotten cultural heritage highlights aspects of Indonesian
culture which are currently misunderstood and sometimes
threatened by destruction. Although they are relatively
recent in origin, the Indonesian megaliths offer similarities
to their counterparts in the Middle East and Arabia: they
reflect the rise to prominence of local chiefs in a context
of acculturation which prompted the need to build megalithic
monuments to bury the dead, and to honour, commemorate
and communicate with ancestors."

Yours,

Paul H.